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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Simone and the person she encounters in "Lust in a Bus Depot" become intimate?

2. What happens to make Bridget and Drake's intimate life fantastic?

3. What is the result of the narrator and the piano player's encounter in "Harlem Blues"?

4. Who is SHE in "Nervous"?

5. What does the narrator explore after she cannot go to sleep in "The Diary"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Bridget and Drake solve their problems in "A Time For Change"?

2. Describe what happens to Mira before she marries her husband in "The Bachelorette Party".

3. What does the narrator come to realize in "The Diary"?

4. What does the pulled over couple tell the police officer they were doing in "The Interstate"?

5. How does "Be My Valentine" end?

6. Describe the narrator in "Lust in a Bust Depot".

7. Describe how Yardley and Clarence meet in "Be My Valentine".

8. Describe the narrator and Norman's relationship in "The Godfather".

9. What happens to the narrator in "Sock It To Me" that changes her life?

10. What is the result of the piano player and the narrator's night alone in "Harlem Blues"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and explain how "The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" advocates a sexual revolution and Zane's idea that "if we can free our bodies, then we can free our minds".

Essay Topic 2

Describe and explain how the content of "The Valley of the Freaks" parallels the content of "The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" in that both increase their sexually inappropriate content.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss how the stories in"The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" parallel relationships in that they both progress gradually from mild and socially acceptable content to more extreme and less socially acceptable content. Consider the first story "First Night" in comparison to the last, "Apha Phi Fuckem- The Convention"

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